AR3: Resolution Text

AR3,21,4 (3) (a) If the proposal should have been referred to a joint survey committee or the joint committee on finance, but was not so referred , or is a senate proposal that, if it were an assembly proposal, should have been so referred, return the proposal to the speaker for referral.

AR3,21,6 (b) If the proposal is not referred under par. (a), refer the proposal to an appropriate order on a calendar dated at least 2 days after such the referral.

AR3,21,9 (4) Notwithstanding sub. (3) (b), any proposal in the committee on rules in the final week of the regularly scheduled last general-business floorperiod in the even-numbered year may be placed on any calendar for that floorperiod.

AR3, s. 26 Section 26. Assembly rule 25 (intro.), (1) and (3) are amended to read:

AR3,21,17 Assembly Rule 25. Admission to the floor of the assembly. (intro.) Members of the legislature, elected state officers, and only the following other persons, shall be admitted to the assembly floor within guidelines determined by the speaker during any session or for one-half one-quarter hour before and immediately one-quarter hour after any session. However, none of the following listed persons shall have has the privilege of the floor if registered as a lobbyist or directly or indirectly engaged in defeating or promoting any legislation before the assembly:

AR3,21,19 (1) The members of congress Congress, justices of the supreme court, and former members of the legislature.

AR3,21,23 (3) Representatives of news media that regularly publish or broadcast reports available to the general public who are actively engaged in reporting the proceedings of the assembly, except that during the sessions of the assembly the privilege shall extend extends only to the designated press area.

AR3, s. 27 Section 27. Assembly rule 26 (1) to (5), (6) (a) and (7) are amended to read:

AR3,22,2 Assembly Rule 26 (1) The presiding officer shall preserve order, decorum, and quiet on and about the assembly floor during sessions.

AR3,22,6 (2) While the presiding officer is addressing the assembly or submitting a question, no a member shall may not cross or leave the floor. While a member is speaking, no other a member shall may not walk between the speaking member and the presiding officer.

AR3,22,8 (3) No A person may not read any printed newspaper on the assembly floor or in the visitor galleries while the assembly is in session.

AR3,22,10 (4) No A person may not consume food on the assembly floor or in the visitor galleries.

AR3,22,11 (5) No A person may not smoke on the assembly floor or in the visitor galleries.

AR3,22,16 (6) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), no a person may not use a 2-way commercial mobile radio service (, such as a cellular telephone or personal communications service), or a 2-way mobile radio device, such as a cellular telephone, in the assembly chamber, other than in the parlor, lobbies, offices of the speaker, majority leader, and minority leader, and in hallways.

AR3,22,19 (7) No A person, except other than a person specified in rule 25 (3), may not possess or use in the assembly chamber a microphone designed to pick up conversation more than 10 feet away from the microphone.

AR3, s. 28 Section 28. Assembly rule 26 (6) (b) 4. and 5. are created to read:

AR3,22,22 Assembly Rule 26 (6) (b) 4. The assembly chief clerk or a person acting at his or her direction.

AR3,22,23 Assembly Rule 26 (6) (b) 5. A member in the parlor or lobbies.

AR3, s. 29 Section 29. Assembly rule 27 is amended to read:

AR3,23,3 Assembly Rule 27. Absences and leaves. No A member may not be absent from any daily session without a leave of absence. One member may request a leave for another.

AR3, s. 30 Section 30. Assembly rule 28 is amended to read:

AR3,23,8 Assembly Rule 28. Hour for convening. Unless a different hour is prescribed by law, resolution, or motion, the assembly, upon a simple motion to adjourn, shall convene at 9 a.m. on the next legislative day; except that if such the day is the first legislative day of any week, the hour of convening shall be is 10 a.m.

AR3, s. 31 Section 31. Assembly rule 29 (1) (intro.) and (d) and (2) to (4) are amended to read:

AR3,23,16 Assembly Rule 29 (1) (intro.) Each calendar shall be dated, shall list all regular orders of business specified in rule 31, and shall list under the proper order of business the proposals referred to such calendar by the presiding officer or speaker, by the committee on rules, or by action of the assembly, and any other business placed on the calendar under these the assembly rules in the sequence in which referred to the calendar.

AR3,23,19 (d) Following the regular orders of business, each calendar shall list all special orders of business which that, at the time the calendar is compiled, have been scheduled by the assembly.

AR3,23,22 (2) Unless otherwise ordered by the committee on rules, calendars shall be prepared for every day of each regularly scheduled floorperiod excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

AR3,24,2 (3) A calendar, except a calendar for a Saturday, Sunday, or state holiday specified in s. section 230.35 (4) (a) of the statutes, shall be provided to each member at least 12 hours before the calendar is to be acted upon during the last week of the last general-business floorperiod preceding the veto review session and18 hours before the calendar is to be acted upon at other times.

AR3,24,7 (4) Unless otherwise ordered, after completion of the 4th order of business on the calendar for the current date, and prior to before consideration of the 5th and succeeding orders on that calendar, unfinished matters entered under orders of business on previous calendars shall be taken up and completed in order by order of business and calendar date.

AR3, s. 32 Section 32. Assembly rule 31 (intro.), (2) and (7) are amended to read:

AR3,24,11 Assembly Rule 31. Regular orders of business. (intro.) Following any opening prayer and salute to the flag, the regular orders of business shall be are as follows:

AR3,24,12 (2) Second order. Introduction, first reading, and reference of proposals.

AR3,24,14 (7) Seventh order. Consideration of motions for reconsideration of passage, indefinite postponement, concurrence, or nonconcurrence.

AR3, s. 33 Section 33. Assembly rule 32 (1) (a) to (c), (2) and (3) (a) to (c) are amended to read:

AR3,24,22 Assembly Rule 32 (1) (a) Messages from the senate or from the governor may be received and read, and any proposal referenced in such the messages which that is a senate proposal initially received for consideration of the assembly shall be referred and any other proposals referenced in such the messages shall be taken up immediately unless referred by the presiding officer to a standing committee or to the calendar;

AR3,25,2 (b) Proposals may be introduced, or offered, and referred when a report, showing the number and relating clause of the proposals introduced or offered for introduction and the speaker's referral of each such proposal, has been provided to the members; or

AR3,25,6 (c) Proposals reported by one committee may be given subsequent reference to another committee or may be referred to the calendar when a report, showing the number and relating clause of such proposals and the speaker's subsequent referral of each such proposal, has been is provided to the members.

AR3,25,12 (2) When the assembly is scheduled to meet in joint convention with the senate, the presiding officer may interrupt business to await the arrival of the senate. When the senate arrives, the assembly sergeant at arms shall announce such the arrival to the presiding officer. The president of the senate or, in the president's absence, the speaker of the assembly shall preside over any joint convention. The assembly chief clerk shall act as the chief clerk of the joint convention.

AR3,25,14 (3) (a) Special orders shall have precedence over the regular orders of business and shall be considered in chronological order.

AR3,25,16 (b) The priority and sequence of special orders shall are not be lost either by adjournment or by recess.

AR3,25,19 (c) Whenever one special order is under consideration, the arrival of the scheduled time for another special order shall does not interrupt the discussion of the special order then under consideration.

AR3, s. 34 Section 34. Assembly rule 33 (intro.), (1) (b), (3) to (5) and (7) are amended to read:

AR3,26,2 Assembly Rule 33. Resolutions for special orders of business. (intro.) At any time after a proposal has been is placed on a calendar or referred to or introduced or offered by the committee on rules, that committee may offer a resolution making the proposal a special order of business at a time and on a date specified in the resolution. A single resolution may be used to make several proposals special orders of business.

AR3,26,6 (1) (b) Within the time limits established by such the resolution, the floor managers shall allocate debate time among the members of their respective sides. The floor managers shall inform the speaker presiding officer of the names of members to be recognized in debate.

AR3,26,13 (3) Any resolution offered by the committee on rules to make a proposal a special order is privileged and may be received under any order of business. Such a resolution shall be taken up and acted upon immediately, ahead of all other proposals then pending. The question before the assembly shall be is adoption of the resolution. The only motion in order with regard to any such resolution is the motion to reject. Debate on the questions of adoption and rejection shall be is limited to 5 minutes each.

AR3,26,20 (4) Any special order created by adoption of a resolution under this rule shall be taken up at the time indicated in the resolution or 12 hours following its adoption, whichever is later. Any motion to reconsider an action on such the special order shall be taken up immediately unless a different time is set by majority vote of a majority of the members present and voting for a specific motion to reconsider. The motion to advance the proposal to its 3rd reading and the motion to message the proposal to the other house may be adopted by a majority of the members present and voting.

AR3,27,2 (5) If ordered to a 3rd reading, any proposal made a special order under this rule shall appear as a continuing special order of business on the calendar for the 2nd legislative day after such the order. Any such continuing special order shall be listed by the time and date of the original order and shall take takes precedence over all other measures which proposals that appear on the same calendar except continuing special orders of an earlier time and date.

AR3,27,9 (7) If any bill which that is introduced in the assembly or senate under section 227.19 (5) (e) or 227.26 (2) (f) of the statutes is not advanced to a 2nd reading within 40 days of after the date of referral to an assembly standing committee, the committee on rules shall introduce offer a resolution to make the bill a special order of business. This subsection does not apply if the bill is introduced within 40 days of after the time at which no further proposals may not be introduced or offered in the regular session under joint rule 83 (2).

AR3, s. 35 Section 35. Assembly rule 34 is amended to read:

AR3,27,16 Assembly Rule 34. Chief clerk receives matters addressed to the assembly. (1) The chief clerk shall receive all proposals, amendments, petitions, committee reports, citations under rules 96 and 97, proposals by administrative agencies under rule 13 (2), communications, and all other matters addressed to the assembly and shall dispose of them in accordance with these the assembly rules and the joint rules.

AR3,27,19 (2) Such matters Matters shall be kept in the sequence received and, if required, be read by the chief clerk under the appropriate order of business in such sequence.

AR3, s. 36 Section 36. Assembly rule 35 (title), (1) and (3) are amended to read:

AR3,28,2 Assembly Rule 35. (title) Proposals, amendments, and reports to be provided before debate. (1) No A proposal, conference committee report, or veto, except a resolution under rule 33 or 43, may not be considered until it has been made available to the members for at least 24 hours excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. If the rules are suspended for the consideration of any proposal before it is available, the proposal shall be read at length at least once before its final passage or final adoption and concurrence.

AR3,28,6 (3) When a fiscal estimate for, or joint survey committee report on, a proposal bill has not been provided to the members, the chief clerk shall read the estimate or report to the membership prior to before consideration of the proposal bill by the assembly.

AR3, s. 37 Section 37. Assembly rule 36 (title) and (1) (a) to (c) are amended to read:

AR3,28,11 Assembly Rule 36. (title) Clerical corrections to proposals or amendments. (1) (a) Correct clerical errors in proposals or amendments, such as errors in spelling, grammatical structure, the improper use of a word , and wrong numbering or referencing.

AR3,28,13 (b) Insert any missing enacting or enabling clause in any proposal before its passage or final adoption and concurrence if the same has been omitted.

AR3,28,17 (c) When necessary, make technical corrections in the title of any proposal so that it shows the any sections affected and the subject to which the proposal relates, mentioning appropriations, penalties, or rule-making authority if the proposal relates to such matters.

AR3, s. 38 Section 38. Assembly rule 37 is amended to read:

AR3,28,23 Assembly Rule 37. Petitions and other documents. (1) Any petition presented to the assembly shall be delivered to the chief clerk and shall be recorded in the journal by number, subject matter, name of the member by whom introduced presented, and name of the communicating person or organization. The presiding officer speaker may refer any petition to a committee for disposition.

AR3,29,5 (2) All other documents presented to the assembly shall be delivered to the chief clerk who shall, if directed to do so by the presiding officer speaker, state the subject matter of each document, the name of the member by whom it was delivered, and the name of the communicating person or organization. The presiding officer speaker may refer such the documents to a committee for disposition. All communications among such the documents may be reproduced in the journal when so directed by the presiding officer speaker or by order of the assembly.

AR3, s. 39 Section 39. Assembly rule chapter 5 (title) is amended to read:

AR3,29,7 Chapter 5:

AR3,29,8 OFFERING, INTRODUCTION, AND DISPOSITION

AR3,29,9 OF PROPOSALS

AR3, s. 40 Section 40. Assembly rule 39 is amended to read:

AR3,29,14 Assembly Rule 39. Introduction and offering of proposals. (1) Except as otherwise provided in joint rule 83 (2), any member or standing committee may introduce or offer proposals for introduction in the assembly on any day of the biennial legislative session.

AR3,29,17 (2) Any proposal introduced or offered for introduction shall have been prepared by the legislative reference bureau and shall conform to the legislative rules and laws governing form.

AR3,29,20 (3) No A proposal may not be received for introduction or be offered if changes have been made in the 3-copy set to the draft prepared by the legislative reference bureau.

AR3,29,22 (4) (a) Proposals shall be submitted to the office of the chief clerk for introduction or to be offered.

AR3,29,25 (b) The chief clerk shall prepare a report containing the number, relating clause, and authors of each proposal to be introduced or offered. The report shall be presented to the speaker for referral under rule 42.

AR3,30,5 (c) The speaker shall refer a properly jacketed proposal within 7 14 working days after the office of the chief clerk receives the proposal for introduction or to be offered or on the final legislative day of the last scheduled general-business floorperiod preceding the veto review session, whichever is earlier. The chief clerk shall publish the referral in the first journal published after the referral is made.

AR3, s. 41 Section 41. Assembly rule 40 (intro.) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,30,8 Assembly Rule 40. Readings of bills. (intro.) Except as further provided in this rule:

AR3,30,10 (2) Unless otherwise ordered, each such reading shall consist of reading the relating clause in the bill's title or on first reading be as provided in rule 42 (2) or (3).

AR3, s. 42 Section 42. Assembly rule 41 (1) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,30,18 Assembly Rule 41 (1) Except as further provided in subs. (2) and (3), any assembly joint resolution or resolution, and any senate joint resolution received by the assembly for consideration, shall receive a reading on each of 2 separate and nonconsecutive legislative days under the appropriate order of business designated in rule 31. Unless otherwise ordered, each such reading shall consist of reading the relating clause in the resolution's title or on first reading be as provided in rule 42 (2) or (3).

AR3,30,21 (2) Any such joint resolution proposing a change in the constitution of this state or the ratification of an amendment to the constitution of the United States shall be given 3 separate readings as provided for bills in rule 40.

AR3, s. 43 Section 43. Assembly rule 42 is amended to read:

AR3,31,2 Assembly Rule 42. First reading and reference of proposals. (1) Upon the introduction or offering of any proposal in the assembly, or the initial receipt of a senate proposal for consideration in the assembly, such the proposal shall be read for the first time.

AR3,31,5 (a) Any proposal that requires 2 or more readings shall be referred by the presiding officer or speaker to committee, or to the calendar for the 2nd legislative day following the referral, or to the committee on rules.

AR3,31,10 (b) The presiding officer or speaker may refer any proposal bill that requires referral to more than one joint survey committee simultaneously to several or all of the joint survey committees. The presiding officer or speaker may refer any bill that requires referral to one or more joint survey committees simultaneously to several or all of the joint survey committees and to an assembly committee.

AR3,31,13 (c) The presiding officer or speaker may refer any budget bill offered under section 16.47 of the statutes simultaneously to the joint committee on finance and to the appropriate joint survey committees.

AR3,31,20 (2) On any legislative day when a report, showing the number and relating clause of proposals introduced or offered for introduction together with the speaker's referral, has been is provided to the members prior to before the 2nd order of business for assembly proposals or the 4th order of business for senate proposals, such provision shall serve serves as the first reading and the announcement of the referral of such the proposals, and the content of the report shall be entered in the daily journal under the appropriate order of business.

AR3,31,24 (3) (a) Beginning on inauguration day and on any day of the regular biennial session period, proposals may be introduced or offered and referred by the speaker or presiding officer if such the action is not in conflict with any limitations imposed by the session schedule or otherwise agreed to by both houses.

AR3,32,5 (b) Whenever the introduction or offering and referral of an assembly proposal or the receipt and referral of a senate proposal occurs on a day on which the assembly does not meet, the chief clerk shall record in the journal the appropriate information concerning the proposal and such the recording shall constitute constitutes the proposal's first reading.

AR3,32,13 (c) Within 5 working days after After initial referral by the speaker or presiding officer under sub. (1) (a) or (b) to a an assembly committee but before a vote by the committee is commenced on a proposal, the speaker, with the consent of the chairperson and notwithstanding rule 15, may withdraw any bill, joint resolution or resolution the proposal from the standing committee to which it is was initially referred and rerefer it to another standing committee or to a special committee or refer it to the calendar for the 2nd legislative day thereafter. Rereferral under this rule may not be used to satisfy section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.

AR3, s. 44 Section 44. Assembly rule 42 (1) (ad) and (am) are created to read:

AR3,32,19 Assembly Rule 42 (1) (ad) All bills introduced in the assembly which by any statute require reference to a particular committee shall be so referred upon first reading and all senate bills when received from the senate shall be so referred upon first reading except where the senate record on the bill discloses that the statutory requirement has been satisfied by reference to the committee in the senate.

AR3,33,2 (am) Notwithstanding par. (ad), the speaker or presiding officer may refer any bill that pertains only incidentally to a matter of concern to a joint survey committee directly to the committee appropriate to the major substance of the bill, and in that case shall direct the appropriate joint survey committee to prepare its report on the bill while that bill is in the possession of the other committee. This rule does not suspend the requirement that the report of the appropriate joint survey committee must be received before the bill is given its 2nd reading.